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• Auction House:
  Mossgreen
• Sale Name:
  Australian Indigenous & Oceanic Art
• Sale Date:
  22 Jul 2014 ~ 6.30pm (Part 1 - Lots 1 - 198)
  23 Jul 2014 ~ 2.30pm (Part 2 - Lots 199 - 331)
• Lot #:
  202
• Lot Description:
  A Yimam Hook Figure (Yipwon)
  Amancabi Village, Korewari River Region, Papua New Guinea (mid twentieth century); carved wood
  139 cm high
• Provenance:
  Collected by Richard Leahy, Papua New Guinea (1975); Private Collection, Sydney
• Notes:
  The Leahy family is an important name in the discovery and exploration of Papua New Guinea. Richard Leahy, son of the noted explorer, Michael James (Mick) Leahy was a pilot in New Guinea for 40 years until a plane crash in 2010 ended his career and he was critically injured. In 1930 Mick Leahy and his brother Danny, along with Mick Dwyer, walked into the highlands of PNG in search of gold. They made contact with unknown tribes and documented and filmed their explorations extensively and were the subject of the 1983 documentary First Contact.
• Estimate:
  A$3,000 - 5,000
• Realised Price:
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• Category:
  Tribal

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